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<\/a><\/p>\nAli Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Ayatollah Khamenei, who is also former foreign minister, said that the “terrorist and brutal” attack killing defenceless people was another show of a “blind and vile measure” by criminals who have targeted Iran’s power.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, according to official IRNA news agency, Iran summoned diplomats from Denmark, the Netherlands and Britain over the attack and \u201cinformed of Iran\u2019s strong protests over their respective countries\u2019 hosting of some members of the terrorist group\u201d which carried out the attack.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a message to his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, has expressed his \u201cdeepest condolences\u201d denouncing the \u201cbloody crime\u201d and called for an \u201cuncompromising\u201d joint combat against terrorism in all its forms and \u201cmanifestations.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Syrian official news agency SANA, Damascus has vehemently condemned the terror attack stressing that the terror adopters in the region will not be able to achieve their schemes through such crimes.<\/p>\n
Iraq\u2019s Interior Minister Qasim al-Araji has condemned the incident, saying it once again demonstrated the hostility of terrorists and arrogant elements towards Iran.<\/p>\n
Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah resistance movement headed by Hassan Nasrullah has said \u201cThe terrorist attack was perpetrated by satanic and malicious hands in a bid to destabilize Iran and punish the Islamic Republic over its sticking to be a fully sovereign state and rejecting subordination to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a related development, the Western and Saudi media have refrained from calling the deadly attack a terrorist act despite large number of civilian casualties. The alleged Saudi-backed al-Ahvazia group has claimed responsibility for the assault.<\/p>\n
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Associated France Press (AFP), US based Fox News and CNN reported the incident as merely an attack without calling it a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n
According to Saudi Arabia\u2019s official Al-Arabiya network, Yaquob Hurr al-Tisteri, the spokesperson of an Ahvazi political group known as \u201cArab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz\u201d has refuted the claims that Daesh (IS) carried out the deadly attack. He was speaking in an interview with the Al-Arabiya News Channel.<\/p>\n
He reportedly said that the attack was executed by national resistance individuals without specifying whether his group had any specific knowledge on which group carried out the attack.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Iranian leadership has blamed US and its Gulf monarchies for Saturday\u2019s terror attack on a military parade in Ahvaz that killed 29 people and accused them of supporting separatist \u201cal-Ahvazia\u201d armed group, which claimed responsibility. Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that the Saturday terrorist attack in Ahvaz was the continuation of\u00a0plots hatched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":49817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1511],"tags":[56014,9988,844,690,1952],"yst_prominent_words":[6604,5237,45677,37083,56596,56592,5087,56593,56597,8541,21004,21241,13130,7708,36134,4548,4474,5231,3888,7473],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2018\/09\/23163613\/feature-khamenei.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49813"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=49813"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=49813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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